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Nothing in physical reality stays the same forever, for it is the nature of physical reality to be constantly changing: expanding, contracting, giving birth, wielding death, bringing new life from death again. Your civilization of the West has been living in a reality of continuous stimulation to purchase objects, objects that are touted as possessing the abilities to make you feel young, beautiful, strong, healthy, desirable, hopeful, safe. No object, however, can do any of these things, for objects themselves break down, wear out, are discarded in favor of new objects. And so the cycle continues.

The only possession that does not break down, wear out, fall apart, get lost in the laundry, mess itself up by banging into other objects—the only possession that does not change in physical reality—is (1) pain and (2) joy. Mister Rand objects, “Pain can change if I am willing to feel it and work with it.” That is correct, if by “pain” one means “specific pain arising from specific incidents.” These indeed can soften into background noise, barely perceptible, with no power to limit the onetime sufferer’s life. But pain itself—one’s capacity for suffering, the existence of pain in physical reality—the fact that physical reality provides endless opportunities for pain—that does not change. As long as there is a physical reality, pain will be available.

Mister Rand finds this statement angering and disheartening. “Pain caused by resistance can be mitigated by learning to accept rather than deny what is happening,” he says. “Pain inflicted upon one by a physical source such as sciatica or an angry spouse can be mitigated by medications and physical therapy on the one hand and reconciliation counseling or divorce on the other. But you’re saying that all the claims of certain world religions, that some day God will transform physical reality into a place where no pain, no suffering, no disease, no hunger, no violence exists—you’re saying that this is not going to happen?”

That is correct. That is what we are saying. As long as physical reality exists, pain will be possible, for physical reality is a reality of hard and soft, harsh and gentle, violent and peaceful, good and evil. As we see it in fact, the only realities where pain is available are physical reality and its close companion, the plane of existence we call thought reality. Sometimes called the plane of mind or the astral plane, thought reality is the level of reality where all minds from all times and spaces can meet and interact. Of the nonphysical realities, thought reality is the closest to physical reality, and it mirrors physical reality’s joys and sorrows.

Everything that happens in physical reality sets off sparks in thought reality. These sparks become what we call thought forms, which have, to the aware human mind, all the appearance of reality. When Mister Rand goes into a mall, and begins feeling overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the crowd, he is unconsciously being battered by thought forms generated by the humans in the crowd. That is because, as Judgment Essence in his Tarot of You system of personality exploration, Mister Rand is particularly prone to sensing and absorbing the mental projections of humans and animals. If Mister Rand permits these thought forms to attach themselves to him, he begins to feel as his own the suffering of those who generated these thought-forms. And this often results in his withdrawing as much as possible from the life outside his own head.

What is the point of this discussion? Our point is that, while you are in physical reality, suffering is one of the experiences that is inevitable here. But physical reality is not the only reality in which your consciousness is embedded, and suffering is not the only experience available here. There are many joys and pleasures available in physical reality as well. Physical reality holds beauties innumerable, and pleasures that have nothing to do with possessing objects that will inevitably decay. Furthermore, Mister Rand is continually connected to the consciousness of his Greater Self, and in the nonphysical he is surrounded by what your Bible calls “clouds of witness”: disembodied friends and relatives, spirit guides, angelic consciousnesses who wish him only well and if called upon can help him make choices that will open up new avenues of pleasure for him.

For every pain in physical reality there is a solace, even if that solace be death; and for every death there is a resurrection. •

Addiction is the soulbody’s response to a karmic need for absolute reassurance that all is as it should be in physical reality. Addiction is a substitute for awareness of divine love. When one is consuming the addictive substance or engaging in the addictive behavior, one is pursuing an old, familiar path leading to a comfortable desired exciting end; yet addiction never provides satiation except temporarily. There is always a Fall after Paradise. And yet, for the brief duration of the high, addiction provides an altered state similar to that which is experienced by saints in trance of divine love.

Mister Rand thinks that his addiction is to compulsive overeating. This is in fact the case to some extent. He came into physical reality to create an amalgamation of his spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical experiences, to find unity amongst them and to communicate this unity in his writing and speaking and intuitive counseling. Yet his yearning for to dissolve back into the Plane of Light and Sound is so great that he also required a powerful tether to physical reality in order to complete his purpose here. Addiction to food provides this.

He has, like many compulsive eaters, suffered from starvation in other incarnations. His body has wasted away in Calicut or Calcutta, he has clawed for purchase on the walls of a concentration camp oven, he has drowned, he has roamed the countryside hiding from the Black Death, he has stolen food in the Renaissance, he has cooked great elaborate meals for masters that he has not been permitted to eat himself. And so he permits himself pleasure without restraint. Of course he also pays a price for this, which is a shortened and less fulfilling life.

While after a binge he may feel himself hopeless, all is never lost forever. As he lets love in, his addiction will retreat. As he lets his body enjoy itself in water therapy at the gymnasium, he will stimulate biological processes that help regularize his body sugars to provide more ready assimilation of sugars and nutriments from the foods he eats, thus reducing cravings. He is at root a runner, with a runner’s metabolism, burdened with an addict’s lethargy.

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Since the mid-1980s Rand B. Lee has served an international clientele as a professional psychic specializing in life-purpose, career, love, wellness, relationships, spiritual development, prosperity, recovery, the Tarot and trancework. Rand works with individuals, couples, and groups in person, over the telephone, or via Skype.